Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 236 318
Rank change year-on-year -106 +82 -11
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 594 654 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.33% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.50% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 295 278 321
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,497 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +0.07% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,625 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,304
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.27% -2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -122 522 £60,000 -14.34% 2,335
London -26 315 £70,561 -11.80% 1,631
UK excluding London -171 214 £60,000 -4.00% 858
Work from Home -10 204 £60,000 -14.29% 862
North of England -31 65 £60,850 -16.07% 185
South East -139 46 £40,000 -36.00% 225
North West +5 45 £85,000 +23.64% 126
Midlands -46 36 £48,500 -19.83% 120
South West -82 26 £68,000 +19.83% 87
West Midlands -35 25 £49,250 -14.30% 76
East of England -37 23 £67,500 +3.05% 99
Yorkshire -45 18 £57,500 -25.81% 44
Scotland +4 11 £77,500 +24.00% 85
East Midlands -27 11 £39,194 -47.74% 44
Northern Ireland -79 4 - - 42
Wales -73 3 £65,000 +8.59% 19
North East -60 2 £90,000 - 15

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (6.90%) Confluence
2 19 (3.20%) CMS
3 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.51%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (6.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 29 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.84%) Moqups
6 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (4.88%) Workfront
2 14 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.84%) Shopify
4 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.51%) iTrent
5 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Eikon
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.17%) RMDS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 78 (13.13%) AWS
2 73 (12.29%) SaaS
3 47 (7.91%) Azure
4 37 (6.23%) iPaaS
5 17 (2.86%) GCP
6 15 (2.53%) Google Workspace
7 14 (2.36%) Figma
8 13 (2.19%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.85%) GitHub
9 11 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.84%) Zapier
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
14 3 (0.51%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.41%) Broadband
2 34 (5.72%) HTTP
3 11 (1.85%) Firewall
4 9 (1.52%) WAN
5 8 (1.35%) DNS
6 6 (1.01%) DHCP
6 6 (1.01%) LAN
6 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
6 6 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.67%) Multicast
7 4 (0.67%) Network Security
7 4 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.51%) CTI
8 3 (0.51%) Intranet
8 3 (0.51%) MPLS
8 3 (0.51%) NGN
8 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.51%) VSAT
8 3 (0.51%) WLAN
9 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.57%) Metadata
2 12 (2.02%) Power BI
3 8 (1.35%) Big Data
4 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.34%) MySQL
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (11.62%) JIRA
2 11 (1.85%) Git
3 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.35%) Selenium
5 7 (1.18%) GitLab
6 6 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.01%) Postman
7 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.34%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 185 (31.14%) Finance
3 176 (29.63%) Marketing
4 89 (14.98%) Law
5 88 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (13.64%) Banking
7 80 (13.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (8.92%) Retail
10 45 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (6.06%) Public Sector
12 30 (5.05%) Manufacturing
12 30 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (4.71%) Legal
14 18 (3.03%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.53%) Publishing
16 13 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (2.02%) Electronics
18 11 (1.85%) Financial Institution
19 9 (1.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 163 (27.44%) Product Manager
2 87 (14.65%) Lead
3 79 (13.30%) Senior
4 63 (10.61%) Product Owner
5 50 (8.42%) Software Engineer
6 39 (6.57%) Senior Manager
7 35 (5.89%) Development Engineer
7 35 (5.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (5.89%) Software Development Engineer
8 28 (4.71%) Senior Product Manager
9 19 (3.20%) Product Lead
10 16 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (2.53%) Development Manager
11 15 (2.53%) Technical Manager
12 13 (2.19%) Platform Manager
12 13 (2.19%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (2.02%) Consultant
13 12 (2.02%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.02%) Technical Support
13 12 (2.02%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.90%) REST
2 18 (3.03%) Terraform
3 16 (2.69%) HTML
4 15 (2.53%) Google Maps API
5 13 (2.19%) React
6 9 (1.52%) LangChain
7 8 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.18%) Spring
8 7 (1.18%) XML
9 6 (1.01%) Pandas
9 6 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.84%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.84%) LlamaIndex
11 4 (0.67%) CSS
11 4 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.67%) Node.js
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 195 (32.83%) Product Ownership
2 51 (8.59%) Social Media
3 38 (6.40%) Marketing Technology
3 38 (6.40%) Over-the-Top Content
3 38 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 33 (5.56%) AI Agents
5 28 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 28 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.21%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.69%) Augmented Reality
8 15 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.53%) Virtual Reality
8 15 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
9 14 (2.36%) Driving Licence
10 12 (2.02%) Biopharmaceutical
10 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.85%) Blog
12 9 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.69%) Linux
2 14 (2.36%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) CentOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (57.74%) Roadmaps
2 233 (39.23%) Agile
3 181 (30.47%) Product Roadmap
4 159 (26.77%) AI
5 137 (23.06%) Decision-Making
6 135 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 132 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (20.03%) Product Vision
9 117 (19.70%) Customer Experience
10 107 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (17.17%) User Stories
12 100 (16.84%) Product Backlog
13 94 (15.82%) Product Strategy
14 92 (15.49%) Software Engineering
15 83 (13.97%) Analytics
16 77 (12.96%) User Experience
17 76 (12.79%) Project Management
18 74 (12.46%) Mentoring
19 73 (12.29%) Product Requirements
20 67 (11.28%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (8.75%) Java
2 42 (7.07%) Python
3 15 (2.53%) SQL
4 12 (2.02%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.85%) C++
5 11 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.01%) R
8 4 (0.67%) Bash
8 4 (0.67%) Bicep
8 4 (0.67%) C#
9 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.51%) PHP
10 2 (0.34%) ABAP
10 2 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 147 (24.75%) Degree
2 43 (7.24%) Master's Degree
3 31 (5.22%) MBA
3 31 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.02%) HND
7 11 (1.85%) HNC
8 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.52%) PhD
10 8 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.18%) CCNA
11 7 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.18%) PMP
12 6 (1.01%) CSPO
12 6 (1.01%) MCSE
13 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.51%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.57%) QA
2 21 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.02%) SLA
4 9 (1.52%) GDPR
5 8 (1.35%) PMO
6 7 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.51%) PERC
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) DICOM
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) HL7
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.52%) Docker
1 9 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.18%) Firmware
3 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.01%) vSphere
4 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.18%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.51%) WSUS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 51 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.90%) Adobe
3 30 (5.05%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.55%) Google
5 17 (2.86%) Facebook
5 17 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.53%) Cisco
7 12 (2.02%) Oracle
7 12 (2.02%) Workday
8 9 (1.52%) VMware
9 6 (1.01%) FIS
9 6 (1.01%) Juniper
9 6 (1.01%) SAP
10 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.51%) Dell
11 3 (0.51%) Fujitsu
11 3 (0.51%) HP
11 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.51%) Reuters
11 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow